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50 free Heart (Band) trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Heart put two sisters, Ann and Nancy Wilson, in charge of a loud guitar band in the 1970s, when that was almost unheard of. They wrote the songs, fronted the group and outlasted nearly everyone who doubted them. Their story runs from bar gigs north of the border to arena tours, a mid-career reinvention and a long list of honours. This quiz covers the whole arc. Expect questions on the real-life insult that produced Barracuda, the early records and the label feud that followed, the glossy 1980s hits such as Alone and These Dreams, and the people who wrote, played on or covered them. There are also questions on the sisters' childhood, their side projects and Nancy's work in film. It is pitched for classic rock fans of every level. The opening questions are ones most listeners can reason out, and the later rounds reward anyone who knows the liner notes.
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Q 01Heart protested when a 2008 convention played "Barracuda" as a nod to which politician's nickname?
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin said she was nicknamed Sarah Barracuda as a high school basketball player, so the Republican convention played the song. The Wilson sisters answered with a cease-and-desist letter.
Q 02Ann and Nancy Wilson moved Robert Plant to tears at the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors with which song?
Stairway to Heaven
Stairway to Heaven was performed with an orchestra, two choirs and Jason Bonham, son of Led Zeppelin's late drummer, behind the kit. The clip drew over four million YouTube views in five days.
Q 03Before Heart's 1987 hit version, which future sitcom star sang "Alone" on the 1984 comedy Dreams?
John Stamos
John Stamos recorded it with co-star Valerie Stevenson three years before Heart took the song to No. 1. Its two writers had already released it themselves in 1983 under the name i-Ten.
Q 04Heart came together in Canada because Ann Wilson's boyfriend Mike Fisher had fled there to avoid what?
The military draft
The military draft sent Mike Fisher over the border during the Vietnam War, and Ann Wilson followed him after they met at one of the group's shows. Heart then built its following in Canadian clubs.
Q 05Nancy Wilson of Heart has a cameo as the "Beautiful Girl in Car" in which 1982 teen comedy?
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fast Times at Ridgemont High has her pull up at a traffic light and laugh at Brad in his pirate costume. She married the film's screenwriter four years later.
Q 06Which singer turned down "These Dreams" before Nancy Wilson sang it to No. 1 for Heart in 1986?
Stevie Nicks
Stevie Nicks passed on the song, written by Martin Page and Elton John's lyricist Bernie Taupin. Heart liked it enough to break a habit of recording only the band's own material.
Q 07Nancy Wilson of Heart married which filmmaker in 1986 and went on to score several of his movies?
Cameron Crowe
Cameron Crowe met her in 1981 through a mutual friend, and she later wrote the music for his films Jerry Maguire, Vanilla Sky and Elizabethtown. The couple divorced in 2010.
Q 08Seeing which band on television in 1964 made Ann and Nancy Wilson want to be rock musicians?
The Beatles
The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show hit the sisters like a lightning bolt, Nancy said later, and they were soon staging air-guitar shows in the living room. Two years on, they saw the group play Seattle.
Q 09Which singer covered Heart's power ballad "Alone" on her 2007 album Taking Chances?
Celine Dion
Celine Dion had her version produced by former Evanescence member Ben Moody. One reviewer praised the vocal while noting that the song still belongs to Ann Wilson.
Q 10Which Heart hit is about Ann Wilson's boyfriend, the band's manager, and how their romance began?
Magic Man
Magic Man is sung from the viewpoint of a young woman being wooed by an older man, to her mother's dismay. It became Heart's first top-10 single in the United States.
Q 11Which debut album made Heart stars in 1976, with a cover showing the Wilson sisters back to back?
Dreamboat Annie
Dreamboat Annie first came out in Canada in 1975 on a tiny local label and sold 30,000 copies there within months. Released in the US the next year, it climbed to No. 7 and passed a million sales.
Q 12Heart's "Barracuda" appears on which 1977 album, the band's first after leaving its original label?
Little Queen
Little Queen went triple platinum on the strength of that single. For a time Heart had three albums on the US chart at once, because the old label had put out a rival release.
Q 13In which Canadian city was Heart based when the band recorded its debut album in 1975?
Vancouver
Q 21Which Seattle musician inducted Heart into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013?
Chris Cornell
Chris Cornell called the Wilson sisters heroes and role models to him and to other musicians in the city. His own group had recorded at the Seattle studio the sisters once owned.
Q 22Ann Wilson of Heart sang guest vocals on the 1992 EP Sap by which Seattle grunge band?
Alice in Chains
Alice in Chains had her sing on the choruses of two tracks, Brother and Am I Inside. A decade later the group's bassist, Mike Inez, joined Heart's touring lineup.
Q 23Why does Nancy Wilson's lead vocal on Heart's "These Dreams" sound unusually raspy and gravelly?
She had a cold
Vancouver became the band's home after it left the Seattle area, and the album was cut in a studio there. Being a Canadian recording helped it onto radio stations that had local-content quotas to fill.
Q 14Besides singing lead, Ann Wilson is credited with which woodwind instrument on Heart's early albums?
Flute
Flute is Ann Wilson's second credit, after lead vocals, in the lineup the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honoured. Her later credits stretch to autoharp, piano and even bass.
Q 15Ann and Nancy Wilson moved often as children because their father served in which military branch?
The Marines
The Marines posted Major Wilson and his family overseas before they settled near Seattle in the early 1960s. Pancakes and opera on Sundays, Nancy recalled, kept a sense of home wherever they lived.
Q 16Heart's original lineup reunited after 34 years to play which song at its 2013 Rock Hall induction?
Crazy on You
Crazy on You put the six 1970s members on one stage for the first time in more than three decades. Nancy Wilson has said its racing acoustic rhythm was inspired by a Moody Blues song.
Q 17In 2012, Ann and Nancy Wilson were honoured for their music with a star on which landmark?
Hollywood Walk of Fame
The Hollywood Walk of Fame star arrived a week after the sisters published a joint autobiography, and less than three months before Heart was voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Q 18In Heart's "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You", whom does the narrator pick up for one night?
A hitchhiker
A hitchhiker is the stranger she chooses, and the song later reveals she wanted a child her partner could not give her. Ann Wilson has called its message hideous.
Q 19For which 2000 film about a touring band did Nancy Wilson compose the theme and coach the actors?
Almost Famous
Almost Famous also features songs she co-wrote for its fictional group Stillwater, and she taught the cast to look like working musicians on stage. Her score earned a BAFTA nomination.
Q 20Heart's 1978 album named its rocking first side and gentle second side after which two creatures?
Dog and butterfly
Dog and butterfly gave the two sides their names: the Dog side rocked and the Butterfly side held the ballads. The record sold a million copies within a month of release.
She had a cold on the day of the session, and the huskiness stayed on the record. After it became a hit, producers reportedly asked whether she could just get sick again.
Q 24Ann Wilson of Heart was a shy child who sought fulfilment in music because of what?
A stutter
A stutter left her shy as a girl, so she looked to music for fulfilment instead. She went on to study at Cornish College of the Arts before fronting Heart.
Q 25Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones produced which 1995 Heart album of unplugged live recordings?
The Road Home
The Road Home was taped at a club in the band's home city of Seattle, with the producer also playing piano, bass and mandolin. Ann Wilson called him a prince among men.
Q 26What did Ann and Nancy Wilson call the acoustic side group they formed for a Gulf War benefit?
The Lovemongers
The Lovemongers took a name meant as an answer to wartime warmongering. Having no drummer, the group used a keyboard rhythm track and stood a cardboard cutout of a famous drummer on stage as a joke.
Q 27Which rock star sings backing vocals on Heart's 1985 comeback single "What About Love"?
Grace Slick
Grace Slick sang on it with her Starship bandmate Mickey Thomas. The song was first recorded in 1982 by the Canadian group Toronto, which chose to leave it off an album.
Q 28Heart entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013 alongside which progressive rock band?
Rush
Rush joined the same class, as did Donna Summer, Public Enemy and Randy Newman. Heart had been passed over on its first nomination a year earlier.
Q 29Which 1987 Heart album is named after the band's nickname for its road-weary look in hotel lobbies?
Bad Animals
Bad Animals was what the members called themselves when they shuffled into hotels dishevelled, exhausted and hiding behind sunglasses. The Wilsons later gave the same name to their Seattle studio.
Q 30Heart's first label enraged the Wilson sisters with a suggestive ad in which music publication?
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone ran the ad in December 1976, with a photo of the bare-shouldered sisters over a caption hinting at a shared first time. The band cited it as a key reason for walking out on the label.